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This is pretty easy to stop.

Supply the poor with open free internet.

Oh wait, then you'd have to stop being a bunch of whiny privileged people and spend your own time and, god forbid some of your own money helping the poor.

Helping the true poor is going to have a catch, there is no utopian society that's going to do it instead, grow up.

Television, which is generally consider to be very positive in impoverished countries, especially around issues like equality, had ads.

And the stations lock users down to their content often using monopolies in radio spectrum. All the while the world goes on as it always does, helping not at all.



Then let their infrastructures at a normal pace without biasing them? Nothing wrong with that.


I have an even easier way, lets find a hack. Lets find a way to use this pipe that Facebook is building to allow access to the wider internet. Lets make it easy, like popcorn time and then lets give it away for free.


Popularise tunneling? It can already be done, and they can't easily stop people from sharing information between Facebook and the outside, the real Internet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8171477

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9203946

What they can do, however, is severely limit the bandwidth this way; it's not net-neutral at all, but tunneling does effectively break out of the walled garden.




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